Democratic lawmakers escalate calls to remove President Trump over Greenland drama

Odds of the US President Trump seeing his last term at the Oval Office end before 2027 on prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi are more than 16%, and rising.

Democratic lawmakers and outside critics believe POTUS Donald Trump is not fit enough for office after he repeatedly threatened to take over Greenland from Denmark. On Monday, Massachusetts liberal Senator Ed Markey urged Vice President JD Vance and Trump’s Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from the presidency. 

The US President had sent a letter to European delegates, supposedly saying he was wrongly denied a Nobel Peace Prize, explicitly due to his “noble quest” for Greenland. Dems are incredibly frustrated with Trump’s actions in office. They include a US military operation in Venezuela and domestic law enforcement decisions by the immigration and customs agency in Minnesota.

“NATO has been telling Denmark, for 20 years, that ‘you have to get the Russian threat away from Greenland.’ Unfortunately, Denmark has been unable to do anything about it. Now it is time, and it will be done!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday. 

Democrats call for 25th Amendment after Greenland threat 

According to a New York Times report, Trump’s message to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre read that because he was not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, he no longer felt an “obligation to think of peace.”

“Invoke the 25th Amendment,” Markey wrote on X in reference to the NYT coverage, referring to the law that allows the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the president unable to perform his duties. 

Invoke the 25th Amendment. pic.twitter.com/hGtiluTGiG

— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) January 19, 2026

The Arctic territory is semi-autonomous but part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and is rich in minerals that the US might be gunning for.

In his latest message, which was shared with several European ambassadors, President Trump asked why Denmark has a “right of ownership” over the territory. He also told the press earlier this month that the US is “going to have Greenland one way or the other,” refusing to rule out the use of military force.

Doctor Jonathan Reiner, a cardiologist who treated former Vice President Dick Cheney and now serves as a CNN medical analyst, called for a formal congressional inquiry on Monday. “The fact that the president wrote a letter and directed that it be distributed to other European countries is cause for a bipartisan congressional inquiry into presidential fitness,” Reiner wrote on X.

Trump told the Wall Street Journal in late December that he was using aspirin to “thin his blood” in defiance of his doctors’ advice. Reiner told CNN that the president’s use of the painkiller “makes no sense.” 

“First of all, when we use any kind of anticoagulant, medications to prevent clotting, those don’t thin the blood. It’s not like changing something from gumbo to chicken soup. It doesn’t make it thinner. It makes you less likely to clot,” he explained.

Arizona Representative Yassamin Ansari piled on the criticism by saying the POTUS is extremely mentally ill and “putting all of American lives at risk.” 

“The 25th Amendment exists for a reason; we need to invoke it immediately,” she wrote.

US President impeachment pressure builds on foreign and domestic disputes 

Progressive Dems, particularly those from liberal districts or running in competitive primary races, all want Trump and senior members of his administration out of the government. But with Republicans holding most of the seats in Congress, it is unlikely that it would come before 2027.

The 25th Amendment exists for moments like this. pic.twitter.com/wev4OABFZD

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) January 19, 2026

Cheri Bustos, who once led the House Democrats’ campaign arm during her 10-year tenure at the House, believes an impeachment would distract the government from addressing voters’ concerns. 

“If candidates and members of Congress are not relentlessly focusing on people’s everyday lives, they are making a mistake,” she told ABC News. “There’s so much of what President Trump has done, is doing, will do that can be labeled ‘impeachable offenses,’ but in the end, what good is it going to do? Even if the House has the votes, the Senate will not go along with it.”

The House has already rejected two impeachment attempts led by Rep. Al Green of Texas. In June, 128 Democrats joined Republicans to block his articles of impeachment based on US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities without congressional approval.

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